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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Philippines

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Philippines

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Commission on the Filipino Language

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
  • Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.

1.9 Similar To

Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

32
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Ilokano Braille, Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Kablaaw

3.2 Thank You

Agyamanak

3.3 How Are You?

Kumusta?

3.4 Good Night

Naimbag a rabii

3.5 Good Evening

Naimbag a sardam

3.6 Good Afternoon

Naimbag a malem

3.7 Good Morning

Naimbag a bigat

3.8 Please

Not available

3.9 Sorry

Agpakawanak

3.10 Bye

Pakada

3.11 I Love You

Ayayatenka

3.12 Excuse Me

Maawan-dayawen

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Balangao

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Philippines

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

21,000.00
Rank: 47 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Bontoc

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Philippines

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

41,000.00
Rank: 39 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Not present

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Not present

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

2
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

9.10 million
Rank: 56 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.14 %
Rank: 50 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

9.10 million
Rank: 47 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

ilokano

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Ilokano, Iloko

5.3.4 French Name

ilocano

5.3.5 German Name

Ilokano-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Ilocano people

6 History

6.1 Origin

18th Century

6.2 Language Family

Austronesian Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Modern Ilocano

6.3.3 Language Position

94
Rank: 63 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

No data available

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

ilo

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

ilo

7.3 ISO 639 3

ilo

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

ilok1237

7.6 Linguasphere

31-CBA-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Ilocano

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Ilocano Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Ilocano Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Ilocano. Ilocano phonology gives Ilocano vowels and Ilocano consonants. There are 6 vowels and 20 consonants in Ilocano language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Ilocano is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Ilocano language is given in detail in this section.

All Ilocano countries

Want to explore all Ilocano countries? About Ilocano language serves you with all Ilocano Speaking Countries. Countries that use Ilocano as official language are called as Ilocano countries.

  • Countries that use Ilocano as their National Language are: Philippines.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Ilocano as second language are: Ilocano is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Ilocano greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Ilocano Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Ilocano language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Ilocano language.Learn Ilocano greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Kablaaw
  • Thank you: Agyamanak
  • Good Morning: Naimbag a bigat
  • Good Evening: Naimbag a sardam
  • Good Afternoon: Naimbag a malem

All Ilocano Language Codes

Get to know all Ilocano language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Ilocano Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.